Workshop on Advances in Lower Limb Prostheses for Agile and Dynamic Walking
International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Palais des Congrès de Paris - FRANCE
Thursday, June 4, 2020
10:15 am EDT (2:15 pm UTC), Virtual Meeting
The workshop was recorded and can be viewed at:
Activities of daily living include dynamic gait scenarios that require high agility and maneuverability. Adjustment of the impedance of the ankle joint is a fundamental neuromuscular feature that contributes to robustness and agility in human walking. Some examples of dynamic gait scenarios are turning, traversing slopes, and adapting to uneven and compliant terrain profiles. Currently available powered lower limb prostheses are designed to improve sagittal plane mobility. However, this design strategy does not fully follow ankle function during walking because even during straight-path walking the human ankle functions in both the sagittal and frontal planes. Moreover, current control methods for lower limb prostheses do not consider the time-varying impedance of the ankle, which is a neuromuscular phenomenon that contributes to agility and stability of the gait.
This workshop goal is to foster collaboration and discussion regarding current work in the field, and the major technical barriers that must be addressed to reach our goal of high agility and increased versatility in dynamic walking for lower limb prostheses. The focus will be on prostheses for the lower extremities, including discussion of biomechanics, dynamics of gait and new technologies that can be used for agile advanced prostheses such as soft robotics and soft actuators.
Organizers:
Panagiotis Artemiadis, University of Delaware, USA. partem@udel.edu.
Rosa H. M. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. rosachan@cityu.edu.hk
Helen Huang, NC State University/ UNC Chapel Hill, USA. hhuang11@ncsu.edu, helen-huang@unc.edu
Mo Rastgaar (primary contact), Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, USA. rastgaar@purdue.edu
Topics:
Human-in-the-loop control of prostheses
Novel sensors and actuators for lower limb prostheses
Soft robotics and soft actuators
Intent recognition algorithms for gait
Biomechanics of locomotion
System identification of human joint dynamics
Rehabilitation robotics
Novel designs and control architectures for prosthetic systems for the lower limb
Clinical implications and ways of assessing functional outcome for lower limb prostheses
Speakers and Schedule:
Thursday, June 4, 2020
10:15 am EDT, (14:15 UTC), Introduction by Mo Rastgaar
10:30 am EDT, (14:30 UTC), Louis Flynn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
10:45 am EDT, (14:45 UTC), Daniel Lemus Perez, Technische Universiteit Delft
11:00 am EDT, (15:00 UTC), Deanna Gates, University of Michigan
11:15 am EDT, (15:15 UTC), Hartmut Geyer, Carnegie Mellon University
11:30 am EDT, (15:30 UTC), Robert Gregg, University of Michigan
11:45 am EDT, (15:45 UTC), Peter Adamczyk, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00 pm EDT, (16:00 UTC), Levi Hargrove, Northwestern University
12:15 pm EDT, (16:15 UTC), Elliott Rouse, University of Michigan
12:30 pm EDT, (16:30 UTC), Hyunglae Lee, Arizona State University
12:45 pm EDT, (16:45 UTC), Anne Silverman, Colorado School of Mines
01:00 pm EDT, (17:00 UTC), Jennie Si, Arizona State University
01:15 pm EDT, (17:15 UTC), Thomas Sugar, Arizona State University
01:30 pm EDT, (17:30 UTC), Panel Discussion (15 minutes)